The armed robbers have plundered a casino in Basel

The armed criminals have plundered Grand casino in Basel. As reports AP, approximately in 4 AM robbers on 2 cars have parked near a casino, have cracked doors, have rushed into a game hall of casino, have forced visitors and personnel to lay down on a floor, have taken away money from cash desks and have disappeared.

Without victims

Robbers have been armed by pistols and automatic guns. In a casino some heard gun shots, however bullets have touched nobody. Most likely, criminals have opened fire, when unsuccessfully tried to crack the safe.



According to police, robbers have carried away some hundreds thousand Swiss francs. The exact sum of the stolen is not specified. Robbers have disappeared on two "Audi" with the French licence plates. According to AFP, criminals have gone to France. Casino Grand in Basel is located approximately in 200 metres from the French border.

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FBI has declassified cyber gangs

FBI has presented typical structure of the gang which are engaged in crimes in sphere of computer technologies. With the story about it the deputy director of department of FBI on cyber crimes Steven Chabinski at exhibition FOSE has acted, writes Computerworld.

Cyber mafia of 21st century

Chabinski has declared, that cyber gangs start to remind on the structure criminal syndicates — easier speaking, a mafia. He also has noticed, that struggle against crimes in sphere of high technologies has turned to the major problem which faces to FBI, informs eSecurity Planet.

As experts of FBI have concluded, the list from 10 key specialities in the world of computer criminality is opened by the programmers developing harmful program decisions. Behind them there are dealers the stolen information and technical IT-experts.

At the head of a pyramid there are financiers, whose functions are reduced to the control over receipt of means, their moving from one account on another and to washing up of criminal incomes. And at pyramid top leaders of criminal groupings who are engaged in acquisition of gangs and definition of the purposes settle down.

Round-the-clock cyber gangsters

FBI notices, that modern cyber gangs differ readiness to work everywhere and "without days off". Chabinski recognised, that malefactors can already start planning of criminal acts in some hours after vulnerability revealing.

FBI staff on struggle against crimes in sphere of computer technologies totals more than thousand employees in territory of the USA. The bureau actively co-operates with corresponding bodies of other states and has already directed to 60 countries of the representatives for struggle against the international cyber criminality.

Spam: to be or not to be?

Spam are anonymous mass dispatches of e-mail (i.e. the electronic equivalent of the paper advertising correspondence which is frequently banal litters for usual mailboxes).



The spam is used for professional advertising more often. Spamers dispatch a considerable quantity of advertising messages and make profit of those who answers them.



The biggest stream of a spam extends through e-mail. At present, the mass component of viruses and a spam in the general traffic of e-mail reaches by different estimations from 70 to 95%.

Spam strategy

Spamers collect e-mail addresses by means of the special robot, using web pages: blogs lists, electronic bulletin boards, guest web pages, chats, forums etc…



Such SPAM-robot can collect many thousand e-mails and create from them a database for the further dispatch on them of a spam. Some companies are engaged only in gathering of an e-mail, and then these bases sell to spamers. Some SPAM-companies sell to spamers an e-mail of the clients which ordered the goods or services through e-mail.



The most reliable way of struggle against a spam — not allow spamers to find out about your e-mail (if you own a private e-mail, you nevertheless should block completely the Domain Spam, it's preventive action).

It is a difficult problem, but some safety measures can be undertaken:

1. Register an your main e-mail not on free mail-service (any decent web-provider to the contract gives a mail box on the server; as a rule, such addresses to spamers do not get).



2. Never and not under any circumstances do not publish this address on www-pages. If you need to publish the address in reply to any letter in a forum — publish an e-mail through spaces, for example: trend @ web.com — in this variant, possibly, your e-mail will not get to spam base.



3. Never specify the main e-mail in registration forms on various doubtful web sites. Register a separate free e-mail — only for registration and use it.



As advertising e-mails, as a rule, strongly differ from the usual correspondence, their elimination from an entering stream of mail became a widespread method of struggle against them. For present time this method — the basic and the most used (the given algorithm is used by the majority of post services: gmail, yahoo, hotmail etc).



In some countries legislators intend to approve the bill directed on struggle against spamers. Attempts of legislative prohibition or restriction of activity of spamers encounter variety of complexities. For example, TechieMedia.net Complaints are not always lawful, because is legally problematic to prove the given kind of a crime at the state level.

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The American government was going to close Wikileaks

The American government was ready to close site Wikileaks in 2008. Measures on struggle against a resource placing in an easy approach confidential materials, have been described in the report published on Wikileaks on March, 15th, writes TechRadar.

Potential threat of safety

The report under the name "Wikileaks — the online directory for a foreign secret service, insurgents or terrorist groups?" Has been prepared by experts of the centre of counterspionage of army of the USA. In the report it was noticed, that Wikileaks represents potential threat to country armed forces.

For struggle against a site military analyst Michael D. Horvath suggested to strengthen measures on prevention of hit of the classified information in hands of informants Wikileaks. So, it is planned to reveal and dismiss scouts who co-operate with a site, or to bring an action against them. On a plan of an analyst, it should promote destruction of an image Wikileaks as source which keeps anonymity of the informants.

Wikileaks by Sunshine Press

Resource Wikileaks is sponsored by noncommercial organisation Sunshine Press. In 2008 it already closed under the decision of the American court. Then a site have accused of disclosure of the confidential information of bank group Julius Baer Bank. Soon after that the court has cancelled the decision, and the site has continued work to the former address.

On February, 1st, 2010 the site has temporarily stopped work, having referred on insufficient financing. Founders Wikileaks have informed, that for that moment they have collected donations on $130,000. However for high-grade functioning of a site it is required to them of $600,000/year, and the minimum volume of financing makes $200,000. At the moment, according to Wikileaks, the volume of the collected donations makes $360,000.

Burglars have cracked networks more than 100 companies

The purposes of the hackers who have cracked in December, 2009 computer systems Google, were over hundred companies, informs IDG News referring to an estimation of analysts of the company iSec Partners, specialising on IT safety.

The planned hacker attack

Researchers have found out 68 servers belonging to hackers, allowing to operate the infected computers. The analysis of all of one of them has found out penetration into networks of 34 companies.

Breaking Google which has been carried out through vulnerability "Aurora" in browser Internet Explorer, has taken place in the middle of December, 2009. Later it was found out, that to breaking also have undergone Intel, Adobe, Symantec and a number of other large companies.

The Chinese indirect participation

According to the analysts, the corresponding harmful program has been created in China. Having promulgated this information, Google at which hackers have stolen some objects of intellectual property, has threatened to refuse censorship of results of the Chinese search and to leave from the local market.

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Intel has suffered from attack of hackers

In January, 2010 corporate net Intel has undergone to scale hacker attack. The information on it is published in the annual report submitted Intel in SEC, writes CNet News.

The intellectual property has not suffered

Intel has not informed on attack publicly, however the representative of the company has confirmed the information containing in the report. Intel has not informed attack details, having noticed, that the company intellectual property in hands of hackers has not got.

In the report it is noticed, that Intel, as well as other leading computer companies, regularly is exposed to hacker attacks. The purpose of intrusions usually is industrial espionage or aspiration to destabilise work of a corporate network.

Attack, by recognition Intel, was thought over and there was approximately at the same time, as a breaking of corporate net Google. However Intel does not consider, that the given attacks are connected with each other.

Attack on Google

Representatives Google declared earlier, that have undergone to intrusion of hackers along with 20 other large companies. Attack on Google started with China, and hackers searched for the information on post accounts of the Chinese legal experts. Soon after promulgation of the information on breaking of network Google has informed, that will stop to carry out censorship of the Chinese segment of the Internet.

In YouTube there was a safe mode

The largest video hosting YouTube has presented on February, 10th the new option, allowing to be protected from a doubtful content. New function "Safety Mode" will protect users from viewing of offensive video and comments, is informed in official blog YouTube.

Safety Mode for YouTube

To include adjustment Safety Mode, it is necessary for visitor to press a corresponding badge which settles down in the bottom of any page of a site. Adjustment Safety Mode can be kept, for what the registered user YouTube should enter into service under the login, make a choice and finish a session.

Tool Safety Mode on a plan of developers will filter vedeo by the search inquiries containing unseemly words, for example "naked" or "violence". Also all comments in Safety Mode will be hidden by default. The user can read them, having pressed a corresponding arrow, but "doubtful" words will be in that case replaced by "asterisks".

Community Guidelines for YouTube

Options Safety Mode will extend also on rollers in headings Related videos, Featured videos, Most viewed and Videos being watched now. Users also cannot look videos sent by friends if such video are filtered Safety Mode. If users YouTube want to look these video, they can switch off option Safety Mode.

The new filter of a content will add already existing community guidelines, forbidding placing of rollers with elements of the pornography, showing violence over people or animals, the use of drugs, and also piracy video.

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